If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon ….

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats..

Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small….

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter..

A lighthouse is more useful than a church..

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone..

Where security exists, liberty and opportunity do not..

The only time a question should be asked is when all other possibilities of finding the answer for yourself have been eliminated..

A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men..

Lose no time; be always employed in something useful..

...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion..

Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them..

But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parl….

It is better to take many injuries than to give one..

Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths..

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them..

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now..

Practice makes perfect..

If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend..

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, ….

He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees..